SA has grown black middle class but wealth gap unchanged since apartheid — report

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The social architecture formed over more than three centuries of white rule has maintained SA’s position as the world’s most unequal society, according to the Thomas Piketty-backed World Inequality Lab.

Most South Africans still suffer from a woeful education system that leaves them ill prepared for jobs. File image

While blacks have outnumbered whites in the richest 10% of the population for about 7 years, the gap between SA’s richest and poorest hasn’t narrowed. Yet, most South Africans still suffer from a woeful education system that leaves them ill prepared for jobs, while townships, built for blacks during apartheid, leave them far away from workplaces.

 

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The most unequal societies in the world are Latin America and the Middle East with Africa 3rd to be a little more precise. Which is still terrible for the people of Africa.

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